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Posts by robert quigley and susana polo

Grant Morrison Is Giving Batman His Yellow Oval Back

by Robert Quigley and Susana Polo | 11:24 am, August 11th

Hey everyone, get excited and possibly overanalyze this! Grant Morrison‘s Batman, Inc. series, which launches in October, will put the yellow oval back onto Batman’s costume.

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French Psychiatrists Diagnose Darth Vader with Borderline Personality Disorder

by Robert Quigley and Susana Polo | 10:53 am, June 4th

A group of French psychiatrists and psychologists have finally figured out what’s wrong with Darth Vader, based on a close reading of the second and third Star Wars prequels: In a letter to be published in an upcoming issue of Psychiatry Research, they argue that the Dark Lord of the Sith suffered from borderline personality disorder (BPD), citing his ‘patterns of instability and impulsivity.’

According to the researchers, Darth Vader evidences six of the nine borderline personality disorder criteria laid out in the DSM-IV; only five are needed for a diagnosis.

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The 10 Weirdest Educational Video Games

by Robert Quigley and Susana Polo | 4:13 pm, April 14th

President Obama has been historically a bit down on video games, readily associating them with bad parenting.  In spit of this, Joystiq reports today that Obama’s fiscal commission has been communicating with Microsoft about creating a budget balancing game.

That is: Not a game that would teach people to balance their own budgets, but a game that would let others attempt to balance the federal budget, to promote public awareness of how difficult it is.  Commission co-chair Erskine Bowles said: “What you could get is support among the populace for the exceptionally unpopular things you need to do to solve this problem… [the game could] go viral.”

Joystiq points out that it wouldn’t be the first game built around balancing the United States federal budget, nor would it be the first game that tried to educate you about something decidedly un-game-like.  We list ten of the best, worst, and weirdest, after the jump.  Some of them you can even play in your browser: like, right now!

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CNN Report on Japanese Rape Video Games: Fearmongering, Late, and Fueling the Flames

by Robert Quigley and Susana Polo | 6:25 pm, March 31st

This afternoon, CNN broadcast a report on the Japanese rape video game scare, which it had previously covered on its website – and which CNN, by virtue of its reach and influence, may have helped start.

Their TV report not only played on misleading us-vs.-them stereotypes about gamers and about Japan, but it brought much more exposure to what CNN itself called a “disturbing” class of games than they would ever have gotten otherwise, focusing as it did on an out-of-print 2006 game called RapeLay, which was never released in the U.S. and which has been sanctioned by Japanese game makers and law enforcement:

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